Louis de Broglie Quotes

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

One of the weird things about modern physics is that we do find there are apparently these other dimensions that we don't directly experience that explain some aspects of the overall geometry and reality of our universe.

Space is absolutely a 3-D world in comparison to our 2-D world on Earth.

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.

What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.

Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which relates "here" and "there." To put the conclusion rather crudely-space is not a lot of points close together; it is a lot of distances interlocked.

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

A line is length without breadth.

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.

There are no fixed points in space.

If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!

Circles create soothing space.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.